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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 20, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.205901
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) [25106005]
- Japan Science and Technology Agency
- JST CREST
- JST ERATO
- RIKEN PostK
- Kakenhi [15H05711]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24106010, 25106005, 15H02286, 26820284] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Compounds of low lattice thermal conductivity (LTC) are essential for seeking thermoelectric materials with high conversion efficiency. Some strategies have been used to decrease LTC. However, such trials have yielded successes only within a limited exploration space. Here, we report the virtual screening of a library containing 54 779 compounds. Our strategy is to search the library through Bayesian optimization using for the initial data the LTC obtained from first-principles anharmonic lattice-dynamics calculations for a set of 101 compounds. We discovered 221 materials with very low LTC. Two of them even have an electronic band gap < 1 eV, which makes them exceptional candidates for thermoelectric applications. In addition to those newly discovered thermoelectric materials, the present strategy is believed to be powerful for many other applications in which the chemistry of materials is required to be optimized.
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